Why The AI "Revolution" Is A Scam: 3 Signs You Will Lose Everything
Stop worshipping ChatGPT.
You are being lied to.
Open your LinkedIn feed. Or X. Or YouTube. What do you see?
"How I Made $10k Passive Income with Midjourney." "Learn Prompt Engineering or Be Left Behind."
It is a grift.
We are witnessing the greatest wealth transfer of the decade. But the money isn't flowing to you. It is flowing to the hardware manufacturers. It is flowing to the cloud providers.
And you? You are the exit liquidity.
I spent the last six months analyzing the "AI Gold Rush." I spoke to VCs. I built the bots. I paid for the subscriptions.
Here is the hard truth: The technology is real. The "Revolution" sold to you is a scam.
If you are blindly following the hype, you are about to lose everything. Your time. Your focus. Your career capital.
Here are the 3 signs you are falling for the trap.
1. You Are Buying Wrappers, Not Tools
I saw a pitch deck yesterday. A "revolutionary" copywriting assistant.
Valuation? $10 million.
You are paying $29 a month for a User Interface.
This matters because wrappers have zero defensive moats.
If I can build your business in a weekend, so can Microsoft. So can Google. So can a 16-year-old in a basement in Estonia.
When Apple integrates these features into the OS, the wrapper economy dies overnight.
You are renting a middleman.
If the tool doesn't have proprietary data, it is worthless. If the "AI" is just a feature, it isn't a business. It's a button.
Save your money. Learn to use the raw models. Cut out the grifters charging you a premium for a prompt you could write yourself.
2. You Are Outsourcing Your Thinking
This is the most dangerous sign.
I see writers using Claude to generate article outlines. I see coders using Copilot to write entire functions without reviewing the logic.
You think you are being efficient. You aren't. You are atrophying.
Writing is thinking. Coding is logic.
When you hand the "first draft" over to an algorithm, you skip the neural struggle. That struggle is where expertise is built.
The market is about to be flooded with average work.
Millions of blog posts. Billions of lines of mediocre code. Infinite generic images.
The supply of "good enough" is going to infinity. The price of "good enough" drops to zero.
Don't let the machine do the pushups for you.
3. You Are Chasing "Prompt Engineering"
"Prompt Engineer" is a fake job title.
It is a temporary patch for immature software.
I hear people saying, "I'm studying prompt syntax." "I bought a course on advanced prompting."
Stop.
In 12 months, prompting won't exist.
Look at the trajectory. Midjourney V3 required complex strings of technical jargon to get a good image. Midjourney V6 just needs plain English.
Optimizing for the current limitations of a model is a waste of life. You are learning how to operate a fax machine in 1999.
Focus on the fundamentals.
Learn storytelling. Learn system architecture. Learn psychology. Learn sales.
If your value proposition is that you know how to talk to the machine better than I do, you are on a ticking clock. The machine is learning to talk to me directly.
The Hot Take: The Human Premium
Here is my prediction.
We are heading toward a "Human Premium" economy.
In a world where digital content costs nothing to produce, "Verified Human" becomes the ultimate luxury brand.
Hand-written code will be more secure. Hand-written letters will be more persuasive. Human-led strategy will be more trusted.
The "Scam" is the idea that you can automate your way to success without suffering. The "Scam" is that productivity tools replace the need for vision.
The more the internet fills with synthetic noise, the more valuable your raw, unpolished, human perspective becomes.
Imperfection will be the new signal of trust.
Don't become a prompt jockey. Don't become a wrapper customer.
Be the signal in the noise.